Comparison

Gravity vs Nora

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Gravity

Learn Japanese by capturing real-world text from your surroundings. This app creates personalized flashcards and study plans based on the vocabulary you encounter daily, making learning practical and context-driven.

Highlights
  • Personalized learning plans
  • Instant vocabulary extraction from photos
  • Smart review system
  • Context-based flashcards
  • Immersion-focused learning
  • Daily learning sessions
Features
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LEARN LANGUAGES THE FAST WAY - THROUGH VIDEOS! (Now with Mandarin Chinese support!) ◆ Learn Japanese and Mandarin Chinese through the content you already love. ◆ Gravity is an immersion-first language app that turns real videos and music into personalized learning. Doomscroll short native clips, sing along in Karaoke Mode, or pick something from a hand-curated library of native videos, each one transcribed word by word and levelled for learners. ◆ Whether you're into anime, J-pop, C-dramas, music, or YouTube creators, Gravity helps you build real language skills through context instead of generic textbook lessons. WHY CHOOSE GRAVITY? → Doomscroll to fluency: Moments turns scrolling into learning with a feed of short clips from native content. → Curated video library: native videos across anime, music, entertainment, creators, and more, levelled from complete beginner to advanced. → Word-synced transcripts: follow along word by word as the audio plays, with an English translation for every line that you can show or hide. → Karaoke Mode: follow the lyrics of songs you love, understand every line, and pick up vocabulary through music. → Tap to learn: tap any word for its reading, meaning, and an AI explanation, then save it in one tap. → Context-based flashcards: every saved word keeps the moment it came from, so you can replay the original clip while you review. → Smart spaced repetition: reviews are scheduled so each word comes back right before you'd forget it. → Practice right after watching: review the words you just saved as soon as you finish a video. → Daily word goals and reminders: stay consistent without overwhelming study sessions. BUILT FOR EACH LANGUAGE Japanese → Furigana, romaji, or no reading aids. Your choice. → Pitch accent graphs and dictionary meanings on every card. → Anime, J-pop, podcasts, streams, and more, levelled from Pre-JLPT to N1. Mandarin Chinese → Pinyin with tone marks, or turn it off. → Simplified characters, with traditional forms shown alongside. → C-dramas, music, and more, levelled from Pre-HSK to HSK 6. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ◆ Real vocabulary and phrases, the way native speakers actually use them. ◆ Listening and reading skills through authentic videos, songs, and clips. ◆ Words from the shows, music, and creators you already watch. ◆ Language you'll actually hear, not just textbook examples. WHO IT'S FOR → Anime, J-pop, C-drama, and music fans who want to learn from what they already love. → Learners who already spend hours watching videos and scrolling online. → Travelers, international students, and people living or working abroad. → Busy learners who want immersion to fit naturally into their day. → Anyone tired of repetitive textbook lessons and overwhelming flashcard decks. HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose Japanese or Mandarin Chinese and your level. 2. Watch a video, scroll Moments, or sing along with a song. 3. Tap unfamiliar words to see what they mean and save them. 4. Gravity turns your saved words into flashcards, each linked to its original moment. 5. Review a few minutes a day and watch your known words grow. LEARN THROUGH WHAT YOU LOVE Doomscroll in the language you're learning. Watch videos. Sing your favorite songs. Gravity turns the content you already want to watch into something you can actually learn from. GRAVITY IS IN EARLY ACCESS. Any bugs, issues, or feedback can be directed to support@learngravity.com. Privacy: https://learngravity.com/privacy Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Nora

This AI-powered language tutor helps you speak a new language from day one through interactive conversations and personalized feedback. Engage in voice calls, play story-based adventures, and practice real-world scenarios with adaptive learning.

Highlights
  • AI-powered conversational practice
  • Live voice call feature
  • Personalized feedback and error correction
  • Interactive story-based adventures
  • Real-world scenario simulations
  • Vocabulary and phrase saving
  • Support for 8 languages
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You've studied. Now speak. Nora is a language learning app you talk to: an AI tutor who answers in both languages, corrects you inside the conversation and remembers what you got wrong. Learn Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French, Italian, German or Swedish by speaking from your first day. SPEAK FROM YOUR FIRST DAY Pick "New to the language" and Nora leads one step at a time. Lesson journeys for your level, like Tokyo Survival Basics, teach three phrases, let you rehearse them, then send you to use them on someone in a real place, like ordering at a café in Tokyo. CONVERSATION PRACTICE THAT FEELS LIKE A FRIEND Type or talk. Nora mixes your language and the one you are learning in one sentence, with a native accent in each, and corrects you inside her reply or briefly afterwards, as you prefer. Roleplay a café, a hotel, a date, or describe any situation. No quizzes, no pressure: a conversation at your pace. NORA REMEMBERS YOU Your level, your goals, your interests and your actual mistakes, with your own sentences as evidence. Weak spots come back in later conversations until you get them right, and you can see, edit or delete everything she remembers. LIVE VOICE CALLS Call Nora for real speaking practice. Interrupt her, ask her to slow down or use more English, and she keeps up. A live transcript shows both sides. VOCABULARY AND FLASHCARDS THAT WRITE THEMSELVES Tap any word for its dictionary entry in Japanese, Korean and Chinese, with furigana, romaji and pinyin, or a translation in the other languages, and save it in one tap. Saved words, lesson phrases and corrected mistakes become spaced-repetition flashcards, and due words come back in your next conversation. STORIES YOU PLAY BY TALKING Like a visual novel: painted worlds, voiced characters, and what you say moves each scene forward. Your choices decide which scenes you land in and how the story ends. YOUR TUTOR, YOUR WAY Talk with Nora, or with Min-jun, Sofia, Takeshi, Emma and Carlos as tutors or as friends. Or build your own: name, voice, formality, personality, and the same memory of you. Set your level, how much English she mixes in, whether she corrects in the flow or points it out, and her talking speed. Say "slower" or "only Japanese" mid-conversation and she keeps to it. SEE YOUR SPEAKING GROW Speaking time, streak, words kept and a heatmap of your days, with daily and weekly goals and badges along the way. EIGHT LANGUAGES, ONE ACCOUNT Japanese learning with furigana and a dictionary that understands conjugated verbs. Korean learning with lookups that find the dictionary form. Chinese with pinyin. Spanish, French, Italian and German conversation practice for travel, work or family. Swedish for life in Sweden. Made by a team in Stockholm. More than 10,000 learners in 52 countries have practiced with Nora. Nora Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Terms of use: https://hellonora.ai/terms-of-service Privacy policy: https://hellonora.ai/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Gravity4 screens
Nora4 screens

Verdict

The call

Gravity and Nora both sit at 4.1 stars, but that hides the real split: 68% of Gravity's written reviews are positive against 0% of Nora's. Gravity also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (35 vs 4). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Gravity sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Nora sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $16.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for Gravity against 4.0 for Nora. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gravity has 35 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 68% of Gravity's written reviews are positive against 0% of Nora's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Gravity versus Nora: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGravityNora
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (35 ratings) — better4.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews67.9% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings35 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 9 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size109 MB87 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperHeimdall Space Inc.Nora Languages AB

Customer experience

Gravity

All ratings35 ratings
Positive77.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative22.9%
Written reviews28 reviews
Positive67.9%
Neutral3.6%
Negative28.6%

Nora

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Gravity

Subscriptions6
  • special offer$4.991 Month
  • Fluency$6.997 Days
  • Immersive Monthly7 Days trial$8.991 Month
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  • Immersive Monthly7 Days trial$11.991 Month
  • Immersion7 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Polyglot7 Days trial$69.991 Year
2 purchases

Nora

Subscriptions2
  • Nora Pro Monthly7 Days trial$16.991 Month
  • Nora Pro Yearly7 Days trial$119.991 Year

Questions

Is Gravity free?
Gravity is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nora free?
Nora is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Gravity or Nora?
Gravity is rated higher. Gravity averages 4.1 out of 5 from 35 ratings, while Nora averages 4.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Gravity or Nora have ads?
Nora shows ads; Gravity does not.
Which is updated more often, Gravity or Nora?
Gravity ships an update every 9 days, and Nora every 9 days. Most recently, Gravity was updated on October 25, 2026 and Nora on October 25, 2026.

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